Fight For 'First Flight' Recognition Continues

... Jackson essentially rewrote aviation history by declaring Whitehead made a powered flight on Aug. 14, 1901 in Bridgeport, CT, more than two years before Dayton brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright made their well-documented flights at Kitty Hawk, N.C. ...

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